Data Ingestion

In this episode, Robin Merttens speaks with John Hele, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, and Greg Framke, CEO and Co-Founder of Portage AI, about why they believe the biggest opportunity for AI lies not in automating the easy work, but in tackling some of insurance’s most complicated processing and data challenges.

Joining Matthew Grant on the podcast, Dom Sindall, Head of Digital Broking, Facultative at Marsh Re, and Stephen Sheehan, Head of Analytics, Facultative at Marsh Re, explain how digital trading, automation and better data could reduce facultative placement times from days to hours or even minutes.

InsTech hosted a webinar in collaboration with ZestyAI, exploring how more complete and precise property-level exposure data is helping cedants strengthen their portfolio narrative, brokers negotiate with greater confidence and reinsurers underwrite with greater precision.

InsTech and McKenzie Intelligence Services explored how military-grade intelligence techniques transform catastrophe claims by combining satellite imagery, weather data, and expert analysis into verified, actionable insights that reduce dispute, fraud, and reputational risk.

In this episode, Matthew Grant sits down with Jonathan Rake, CEO of Risk Data Solutions at Swiss Re, to explore how a major reinsurer is building data and analytics as core capabilities beyond traditional risk‑transfer.

Bordereaux reporting remains a major drag on the delegated authority market, with manual, inconsistent processes delaying data, restricting capital flow and undermining trust across MGAs, carriers and reinsurers. The solution lies in real-time, automated data infrastructure that transforms fragmented reporting into a connected, transparent and scalable system. In conversation with Scott Quiana, CEO of Noldor, we discuss how the company is building infrastructure to remove bottlenecks, restore confidence and enable the program insurance market to grow with greater speed and precision.

In this episode, Matthew is joined once again by Richard Hartley to reflect on a major milestone in Cytora’s journey: its acquisition by US-based Applied Systems.

InsTech hosted a webinar with Insurants and MSIG, showcasing how digitising Schedules of Values and restructuring the submission workflow improved quote accuracy, reduced rekeying, sped up turnaround times and laid the foundation for MSIG’s broader digital roadmap.

Robin Merttens speaks with Chris Quirk, VP and General Manager at Insurity, to unpack the drivers behind the company’s international expansion and what it signals for the wider market.

In this episode, Matthew Grant catches up with Bob, CEO and Co-founder of PropertyLens and former CEO and founder of Hazard Hub, to hear what he’s learned across three startups, why he’s building again post-exit and how he’s turning deep domain expertise into tools that actually help people.

In this episode, Robin Merttens speaks to Guillaume Bonnissent, CEO and founder of Quotech, a platform built specifically for underwriting teams. What emerges is a sharp portrait of a market in transition, one that’s slowly waking up to the need for class-specific tools, data-first workflows and AI that’s genuinely useful.

In this episode, we speak with Todd Rissel, CEO and co-founder of e2Value, an independent company that has spent the last 25 years helping insurers and homeowners understand the real cost of rebuilding property, and the wider economic forces shaping those numbers.